2017 FINA World Championships
July 23-30, 2017Budapest, Hungary
Dagály Aquatics Arena
SCHEDULE
PSYCH SHEET
LIVE RESULTS
Women 100m Breaststroke -- SEMIFINALS
World Record: 1:04.35 -- Ruta Meilutyte (LTU), 2013Championship Record: 1:04.35 -- Ruta Meilutyte (LTU), 2013
World Junior Record: 1:05.39 -- Ruta Meilutyte (LTU), 2014
American Record: 1:04.45 -- Jessica Hardy (USA), 2009
1.) Yulia Efimova (Russia) -- 1:04.36 (Q)
2.) Lilly King (USA) -- 1:04.53 (Q)
3.) Ruta Meilutyte (Lithuania) -- 1:05.06 (Q)
4.) Katie Meili (USA) -- 1:05.48 (Q)
5.) Jinglin Shi (China) -- 1:06.47 (Q)
6.) Kierra Smith (Canada) -- 1:06.62 (Q)
6.) Jessica Vall (Spain) -- 1:06.62 (Q)
8.) Sarah Vasey (Great Britain) -- 1:06.81 (Q)
IT. IS. ON. In the first semifinal, Russia's Yulia Efimova dropped a massive 1:04.36 -- just one one-hundredth off of the world record. What did she do immediately after seeing the scoreboard? Waved her finger. Uh oh. In the second semifinal, Lilly King of the United States responded by blazing the first 50 meters in 29.90 -- under world record pace -- and finished in 1:04.53. That is a best time for King and you better believe one of these two will break the world record in the final on Tuesday night -- or die trying. In third is the current world record holder, Ruta Meilutyte of Lithuania, in 1:05.06. This is going to be a race for the ages.
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